Richmond 3rd District City Council Richmond DSA endorses Kenya Gibson Kenya Gibson is running to replace Ann Lambert as the 3rd district’s representative on City Council. Public records indicate that Lambert accepts hefty donations from developers and corporations, including Dominion Energy. In contrast to the many city council members who craft the city budget at…
Richmond DSA is excited to officially announce our endorsement of Kenya Gibson to represent Richmond’s Third District on the City Council. Kenya is a local leader who shares our commitment to supporting educators, bolstering labor movements, and fighting to ensure accessible housing for all of Richmond’s citizens. We believe that Kenya will shed light on important issues…
Community building is hard. We spent the previous Thursday working on our organization bylaws. It’s boring and dry work, but I love the community that comes with every general meeting. You get to meet people from all walks of life, working class folks who are dreaming of a better world. I got to meet two…
Disclaimer: This work is an opinion-piece piece written by an individual member of RDSA. The content does not necessarily reflect positions taken by RDSA, the membership, or steering. By Violet Rose, RDSA Member You might encourage a philosophy where you embrace each positive moment and seize whatever benefits you can. This approach can only be…
Disclaimer: This work is an opinion-piece piece written by an individual member of RDSA. The content does not necessarily reflect positions taken by RDSA, the membership, or steering. By Violet Rose, RDSA Member Many in the country are reacting to or desperately trying to cope with the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn…
In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, DSA Richmond would like to remind everyone to be safe by practicing social distancing and stricter personal hygiene measures. We have all been caught unprepared by this outbreak, and the structure of our society – capitalism – has exacerbated it. We can build the alternative to capitalism now…
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The Richmond Coliseum is already the busiest such arena in the state, and the notion that replacing it will somehow address Richmond’s worst problems, such as poverty and the underfunding of our school system, is a farce.
At a time when violence against transgender people is on the rise in the United States, we need to, at the very least, recognize the active threat the policies and rhetoric of the Trump administration pose to the transgender community.
Police will do whatever they can to stifle the working class’s self determination. Nothing frightens them more. Nothing reminds them more of their complicity in state violence and class warfare than a holiday that celebrates the working class’s martyrs, achievements, and culture.